22 No-Burn Days In December! (Sacramento: living, move to, air pollution)

[Aquaboy]

The air-quality folks have declared a record number, 22 no-burn days for fireplaces/stoves in Dec! We know it's about clean air, but I sure miss a crackling fire on these 38 degree nights!

www.sparetheair.com

[NinaN]

Move to El Dorado County!

[Curmudgeon]

Move back to America!

[Aquaboy]

Originally Posted by NinaN

Move to El Dorado County!

That just might happen, someday!

[Dean Trails]

Originally Posted by Aquaboy

The air-quality folks have declared a record number, 22 no-burn days for fireplaces/stoves in Dec! We know it's about clean air, but I sure miss a crackling fire on these 38 degree nights!

www.sparetheair.com

Yeah, but the local witches endorse as many no-burn days as they can.

[steel7]

Just burn anyways & hope no one snitches on you. A fireplace is nice so use it.

[Samoi137]

I've lived in L.A., with horrible smog (when I was a kid, I used to take burnable trash to our backyard incinerator)and, later, in Sacramento, which also had bad air pollution, though not like L.A. You seem to feel that the atmosphere of a crackling fire trumps the healthof you and your neighbors. It's not every day, right? I remember the days when the rice fields in Yolo County were burned. Your lungs can have effects for years. It's not just "the air quality folks," but also some people who have dealt with the health effexts of air pollution. Of course, some don't really believe there's a cause and effect here. Automakers didn't exactly volunteer to make cars less polluting. And I imagine some didn't mind the smog of L.A. (which you can now find in various places in the Central Valley).

[Aquaboy]

You're assuming Im breaking the law, which Im not. Im all for clean air etc.
I do have to say that handing out fines potentially of 1,000 dollars for using a fireplace seems to be a bit "big government", as the whacky groups describe it.

[looking4home]

There's something very primal about man's relationship to fire, and making fire to warm oneself, to cook food, etc. But "big govenrment" has successfully squashed most of our natural instincts because they don't conform to a certain prescribed ideology.

I think it has less to do with clean air or lungs than it does with government, be it local, state or federal, flexing its muscle, and showing who's boss. They're controlling and mirco-managing every aspect of our lives, and now they are in the living room telling you when you can or cannot light fires in an innocuous fireplace.

[KC6ZLV]

There are some really ignorant posts in this thread.

Yes, yes, being American is all about lighting a fireplace because you feel it is your right, regardless of the smoke everyone else around you must inhale so you can have light a fire because you feel like it. Do what you feel like and to hell with everyone else. That is the American way!

And yes, the government is only doing this to annoy people. It can't possibly have anything to do with particulates and other pollution. In fact, prohibiting the use of fireplaces is a conspiracy by the NWO to control you.